Bug 1595931 - RFE: qemu: support for scsi-disk/ide rotation_rate
Summary: RFE: qemu: support for scsi-disk/ide rotation_rate
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 1498955
Alias: None
Product: Virtualization Tools
Classification: Community
Component: libvirt
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Libvirt Maintainers
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Reported: 2018-06-27 20:14 UTC by Mai Ling
Modified: 2020-10-05 10:21 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2020-10-05 10:21:08 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Bugzilla 1498042 0 low CLOSED RFE: option to mark virtual block device as rotational/non-rotational 2022-09-30 03:12:27 UTC

Description Mai Ling 2018-06-27 20:14:39 UTC
#1498042 has added support for telling the guest the rotation rate of drives.
I'd like to be able to use this with virt-xml.

[root@gw2 vmstore]# virt-xml gwwin --edit --disk rotation_rate=0                                                                                               ERROR    Unknown options ['rotation_rate']

Comment 1 Cole Robinson 2018-06-27 21:41:54 UTC
This needs to be exposed in libvirt first, so reassigning.

This is in qemu 2.11, patch posting was: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-10/msg00697.html

Comment 2 Kevin Olbrich 2019-05-01 22:16:03 UTC
I would really like to see this implemented at the XML layer.
As far as I understand, VMs also get entropy from disks if they are rotating but don't when they are solid state drives.
Windows guests also behave differently if they detect SSD media (virtio-scsi with discard solves this mostly).

There seems to be a workaround (not tested):
https://serverfault.com/a/924717/453453

Comment 3 Erik Skultety 2020-10-05 10:21:08 UTC
Since this is now assigned to the libvirt component, there already is a product BZ tracking this feature, hence I'm closing this as a duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1498955 ***


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